Overview
Dr. Jeff Derby received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1975. He joined IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC, in 1982 after spending seven years with Bell Laboratories in Whippany, NJ. He is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member in the PowerPC Technology Development area in the IBM Microelectronics Division. His work is focused on analog and digital signal processing subsystems with application to telecommunications. He is listed as an inventor or co-inventor on 22 US patents. Dr. Derby has been an adjunct faculty member at Duke since 1984.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2013 - Present
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Publications
An innovative low-power high-performance programmable signal processor for digital communications
Journal Article IBM J. Res. Dev. (USA) · 2003 We describe an innovative, low-power, high-performance, programmable signal processor (DSP) for digital communications. The architecture of this processor is characterized by its explicit design for low-power implementations, its innovative ability to join ... CiteComments on “On the design of pole-zero approximations using a logarithmic error measure”
Journal Article IEEE Trans. Signal Process. (USA) · 1996 The present paper comments on a paper by Blommer and Wakefield (IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol.42, no.11, p.3245-8, 1994 Nov.). The present author shows that the log spectral matching technique described in Blommer and Wakefield is equivalent to least- ... Full text Link to item CiteMultirate subband coding applied to digital speech interpolation
Journal Article IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process. (USA) · 1987 A statistical analysis is presented of a digital speech interpolation (DSI) system using multirate subband coding. The authors estimate the level of speech quality and grade of service that can be provided by such a system, given values of various system p ... CiteRecent Grants
AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge
ResearchDirector · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026Infrastructure & Course Development Support for Computer Engineering Capstone Courses
Institutional SupportCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2007 - 2008View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Columbia University ·
1975
Ph.D.